As the Demon Lord’s influence creeps across the land, it touches more people, awakening in them crippling dread, tempting them to commit unspeakable acts, or to rise up and take a stand and fight back against the spreading darkness. In the end times, all must choose a side, to save the world or watch it burn.

The Demon Lord’s Companion reveals new options for players and Game Masters alike, providing a host of new options such as:

Faun and Halfling ancestries

Six expert paths including the psychic and mountebank

A dozen master paths such as the blackguard, martial artist, and demonologist

Alchemical Items, Forbidden Items, Marvels of Engineering, and new Potions

New rules for creating gear and using vehicles

Alchemy, Demonology, Telekinesis, and more new traditions of magic

Magical places, relics, new creatures, and more!

An essential addition to the Shadow of the Demon Lord line of products, the Demon Lord’s Companion is bound to take your games into darker and stranger places!

I wish there was a decently priced print only option (doesn't help that exchange rate from Australia could be better). But pricing seems to assume you want PDF only or PDF + print.
Price for Tales of the Desolation in print is much better for around the same page count (though print + PDF is also less than for other books).
I love the game and really want to get a range of these books in print, but the current print only price is likely to put some potential customers off, which is a pity considering it deserves great success.

cecil HMay 01, 2016 9:22 pm UTC

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The cost difference in producing a PDF and a print book is negligible. The price for art, editing, layout, proofreading, etc doesn't change based on the medium the product appears. So if you're unhappy with the cost of a printed version of this book, it is because you are unhappy with getting a great product.

By demanding a lower price, you are demanding that all the people involved with making this great book make less money, and by extension you are demanding that less work be put into making RPG books. Sorry you hate quality.

Luke WMay 02, 2016 6:20 pm UTC

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FWIW as a New Zealander, DTRPG POD prove a competitive price to buying retail overseas as the shipping rate is very low (I think they print and ship from Australia). This also makes delivery times very quick. Take another look at the total price with shipping (especially when combined with other PODs) and you may not be as bad as you think.

Luke WMay 02, 2016 6:23 pm UTC

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Tales of Desolaton page count is 28 pages BTW. Half of the Conpanion's.

The Demon Lord's Companion has more of what was good in the initial core rulebook. There is another step you can add to your characters at character creation to give them more flavor from the start, which can be as much of a detriment as a benef [...]

Demon Lord Companion is a 50 page book for Shadow of the Demon Lord. It is essentially an expansion of all of the mechanical set out in the rulebook - races, magic, paths, equipment and monsters. It continues in the same superb physical presentation as [...]

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